Massacre of the Conestogas: On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County Book

Preface 11

Part 1 Telling the Story

1 "Drive the Heathen Out of the Land" 17

2 "Some Hot Headed Ill Advised Persons" 25

3 "The Same Spirit & Frantic Rage" 41

4 "Persons of Undoubted Probity & Veracity" 51

Part 2 Retelling the Story

5 "I Never Heard One Word of It Till It Was Just Over" 61

6 "A Mighty Noise and Hubbub" 67

7 "Shot-Scalped-Hacked-and Cut to Pieces" 79

8 "One of Those Youthful Ebullitions of Wrath" 87

9 "The Innocent Were Destined to Share the Fate of the Guilty" 97

10 "A Zone of Vicious Racial Violence" 103

Part 3 Killers and Abettors

11 "The Most Respectable of Men" 113

12 "They Had Possession and Would Keep It" 125

13 "Eternal Shame & Reproach" 133

Part 4 Death and Reconciliation

14 "The Remains of the Victims of a Terrible Crime" 149

15 "Slaughter'd, Kill'd and Cut Off a Whole Tribe" 155

16 "Who Was Left to Mourn for These People?" 161

Notes 167

Bibliography 177

Index 183

About the Author 189